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ligament which is fixed into the upper surface of the orbit nearly its 

 whole breadth. The use of this muscle seems to be to squeeze the fat 

 and muscles behind the eyeball, which will throw the eye forward, as 

 it cannot pass backwards. 



The optic nerve will allow of this motion, as it runs in a serpentine 

 course in its natural state. The eyeball is small, having a black ring 

 round the beginning of the cornea, which serves perhaps for the defi- 

 ciency of black round the eyelids, as the hairs are there white, and as 

 it seems necessary to have black upon the outside of the eye when the 

 pigmentum nigrum is black within. This pigmentum is very black, 

 both on the outside and inside of the choroid, and the same upon 

 the iris. The pigmentum album surrounds the optic nerve, but is 

 broadest above, and has a mixture of green in it. The crystalline lens 

 is not remarkably convex. 



The external parts of generation are pretty much like those of a bitch, 

 but these parts are so covered with hair that there is hardly any seeing 

 them. The common vagina is about a third longer than the proper, and 

 is of a dark colour, becoming so gradually the further in, so that it is 

 almost black at the termination. The meatus urinarius ends in a pro- 

 minence which is lost in the form of a ridge along the common vagina. 

 Within the vagina, just at the peaked part, is the clitoris, which is a very 

 uncommon one. Upon opening the vagina, it is not seen, being enclosed 

 in a sheath : to expose it, you must slit up this sheath its whole length 

 at one edge. The clitoris is a pretty long and rounded body, about an 

 inch in length, and is attached through its length to the internal 

 membrane of the vagina on its external surface : it is something like 

 the tongue in the mouth. The internal surface of this bag or sheath of 

 the clitoris is thrown into the longitudinal rugae, and is of a dark colour. 

 The spongy part of the clitoris does not extend further than the exposed 

 part ; so that in coition it cannot be touched by the penis, but must be 

 rubbed against the internal surface of its own sheath. The internal 

 coat of the proper vagina is thick and soft, and is thrown into irregular 

 rugae, which are very flat, and were of a florid red colour. Near its ter- 

 mination in the uterus it is very much contracted ; and there puts on 

 the appearance of an os tincee, but that is a little higher. The body of 

 the uterus is very small, and is something longer than the vagina ; it 

 divides into, or sends off two horns, the openings of which are about 

 half an inch from what appears externally to be the fundus uteri ; 

 each of these horns is longer than the uterus ; they are attached by the 

 broad ligaments, which are attached at their upper ends to the kidneys 1 . 



1 [The kidney forms the Hunt. Prep. No. 1262.] 



